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Public comment is sought to help inform the Working Group in shaping its recommendations for enhanced industry self-regulatory efforts as part of a report requested by Congress. Comments are not being requested as the basis for regulation. The recommendations include principles addressing the nutritional quality of foods that are most heavily marketed to children. They also include proposed definitions of advertising, promotion, and other marketing activities targeting children ages 2-11 years and adolescents ages 12-17 years to which the nutrition principles would apply. The Working Group seeks public comment on both the nutrition principles and the definitions of marketing targeted to children and adolescents | National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center TRENDNOTES . ABOUT TRENDNOTES TRENDNOTES published semiannually by The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center is designed to highlight emerging trends in children s oral health and promote policies and programmatic solutions that are grounded in evidence-based research and practice. It focuses policymakers attention on the trends opportunities and options to improve oral health for all children at lower cost through the best use of prevention disease management care coordination and maximized resources. This issue of TRENDNOTES discusses the overall importance of a patientcentered health home that includes medical dental and mental health care to improving children s health and explores key considerations related to integrating dental care with medical care. Additionally it discusses federal opportunities particularly those under ACA to promoting a health home for children and their families. Children s Oral Health in the Health Home Trend Policymakers are placing greater focus on health homes in an effort to improve health outcomes lower health care costs and improve health care quality. More than 30 states have initiated efforts to advance such homes through improvements to Medicaid and CHIP. Additionally the Affordable Care Act ACA includes key provisions to support further development and implementation of such homes at the state and local levels. Health homes coordinate medical behavioral and dental service systems through a variety of approaches including full integration co-location shared financing virtual linkages and facilitated referral and follow-up. Such health homes are an important approach for helping to ensure that children and their families particularly those who are low-income have access to comprehensive health care services including dental care. Currently there are few health home models that fully integrate dental care. However policymakers can promote children s oral .